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solarbirdOnce upon a time, I had some faith in the idea of police reform. The last several weeks have shattered that faith completely. I no longer have any such faith whatever. None. ACAB: burn it all down.
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More arrests overnight on Capitol Hill as new battle lines form between protesters and police
Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2020
Capitol Hill Blog
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/07/more-arrests-overnight-on-capitol-hill-as-new-battle-lines-form-between-protesters-and-police/
There are nights of police lines and protester standoffs, explosions and pepper spray again in the core of Capitol Hill. The first night after Seattle Police and the city sweeping back in to retake the East Precinct and clear the Capitol Hill protest zone from Pike/Pine and Cal Anderson Park brought a new version of the ongoing tensions over demonstrations in the city.
The scale for now is much smaller. A crowd of dozens of protesters that began to form at Broadway and Pine’s rainbow crosswalk from the first moments after Wednesday’s early morning raid clashed with police as the overnight brought another dispersal order and then pepper spray and arrests. SPD reports another 25 people were arrested “for failure to disperse, assault, and obstructing.” The city’s ban on crowd control weapons isn’t set to take effect until later this month.
Smaller crowds also formed during the night at different points along the large perimeter police are maintaining around the precinct and park.
Other aspects of the night were familiar. The smaller crowd of dozens of protesters split at one point for the group to continue its nightly march to the West Precinct and I-5 between 520 and I-90 was also closed at one point overnight due to concerns over the demonstrators entering the freeway. UPDATE: Protesters are also said to be planning to continue nightly — and controversial — demonstrations outside Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Northeast Seattle home.
The night also brought explosions though not from the police flash bangs utilized in the large protests outside the East Precinct at 11th and Pine last month. Large fireworks were reported by nearby residents through the night, some lighting the sky above Cal Anderson while others boomed and echoed loudly off the area’s apartment buildings.
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Seattle Police Department and protesters clash overnight at CHOP zone; more arrested
By Callie Craighead, SeattlePI
Updated 8:07 am PDT, Thursday, July 2, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/seattle-police-dept-protesters-clash-chop-zone-15382096.php
Clashes between protesters and Seattle police continued overnight after Wednesday's early morning sweep of the CHOP protest zone following an executive order signed by Mayor Jenny Durkan.
Police and protesters faced off at a barricade on Broadway and East Pine Street that was set up as part of the sweep and reclaiming of the East Precinct.
SPD stated that just before midnight, the standoff became violent and police deployed pepper spray and blast balls after the crowd allegedly threw bottles at the police line. According to the police statement, 25 arrests were made for obstruction, assault and failure to disperse.
Flashbangs were also reportedly deployed to disperse protesters in Capitol Hill. SPD is still authorized to use these crowd control munitions in the coming weeks despite a temporary restraining order filed in June after earlier clashes following the death of George Floyd.
An exception in the order allows police to use these munitions if "reasonable, proportional, and targeted action to protect against a specific imminent threat of physical harm … or to respond to specific acts of violence or destruction of property."
Groups of protesters also made their way to City Hall and to the Windermere neighborhood near Durkan's house to demand the city defund SPD and release all of the protesters detained.
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Oregon State Police don’t wear coronavirus masks while patronizing coffee shop, despite governor’s order
A screenshot of surveillance video shows a group of Oregon State Police did not wear masks as they visited a Corvallis coffee shop on Wednesday, the first day of a statewide mask order issued by Gov. Kate Brown.
Updated 3:06 PM; Today 6:00 AM
By Brad Schmidt | The Oregonian/OregonLive
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/oregon-state-police-dont-wear-coronavirus-masks-as-they-patronize-corvallis-coffee-shop-despite-governors-order.html
A group of Oregon State Police troopers appeared to defy Gov. Kate Brown’s statewide mask order while in uniform Wednesday, entering a Corvallis coffee shop without wearing required face coverings, video obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows.
The store’s assistant manager, Travis Boss, said he told the first trooper who arrived that the trooper needed to wear a mask.
“Governor Brown has no authority to take our civil liberties. We aren’t going to wear masks,” the trooper allegedly said, according to a written statement from Boss provided to the newsroom.
The trooper proceeded to place his order, Boss said in an interview, offering a foul-mouthed retort to the governor’s mandate that masks be worn within indoor public spaces.
“He said, ‘F--- Kate Brown,’” Boss recalled.
The trooper’s alleged comments came on the same day that Brown’s statewide mask order went into effect, and just hours before Brown implored Oregonians to wear facial coverings as a “simple, common sense way to protect yourself and others” during the coronavirus pandemic.
Three other law enforcement officers entered the business moments later and also refused a request to wear masks, Boss said. Boss said he felt compelled to fulfill their drink orders because they were in uniform, even though he said he had sent other patrons away earlier for not wearing masks.
The incident represents an extraordinary example of the difficult position that some businesses say Brown’s order has put them in as they work to enforce the potentially divisive rule. Workers in shops across Oregon have been left to impose the mask mandate with the knowledge that some customers may disobey or, as videos across the country have shown, create made-for-internet spectacles.
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Court order, City Council law didn’t stop Seattle police from using pepper spray, projectiles
2 July 2020
By Daniel Beekman
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/court-order-city-council-law-didnt-stop-seattle-police-from-using-pepper-spray-projectiles/
On June 12, a federal judge ordered Seattle police to stop using crowd control weapons against peaceful protesters. On June 15, the Seattle City Council passed legislation banning crowd control weapons altogether.
But as officers cleared people from the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct Wednesday morning and then faced off with protesters at a nearby intersection overnight, they deployed a 40-millimeter sponge round, pepper spray and blast balls, the Police Department said.
There are details in the judge’s order and the council’s legislation that complicate the situation. The court order allows police to still use crowd weapons in certain instances, including to protect themselves, and the council’s legislation has yet to actually take effect.
Lawyers for the protesters who won the court order are particularly concerned about the deployment of blast balls and are gathering evidence about the city’s recent uses of force to determine whether police violated the order, one of the attorneys said Thursday.
The Police Department and Mayor Jenny Durkan didn’t directly address Thursday how the weapon deployments Wednesday and overnight related to the court order, though a spokesperson for Durkan said the mayor supports the order.
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eli
twitter.com/sre_li
2 July 2020
https://twitter.com/sre_li/status/1278856204018565120
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The grey cap makes the guy the police attacked pretty easy to find and follow if you step through this. As far as I can tell, I agree: he did nothing.]
Cops attack peaceful protestors at Broadway and Pine. 5:30pm July 2nd. Dive tackled the kid next to me, put a knee on his neck. Can’t stress enough he did nothing.
Please share.
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[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
Greg Doucette's police violence thread currently ends here.
- More arrests overnight on Capitol Hill as new battle lines form between protesters and police
- Seattle Police Department and protesters clash overnight at CHOP zone; more arrested
- Oregon State Police don’t wear coronavirus masks while patronizing coffee shop, despite governor’s order
- Court order, City Council law didn’t stop Seattle police from using pepper spray, projectiles
- Cops attack peaceful protestors at Broadway and Pine. 5:30pm July 2nd.
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More arrests overnight on Capitol Hill as new battle lines form between protesters and police
Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2020
Capitol Hill Blog
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/07/more-arrests-overnight-on-capitol-hill-as-new-battle-lines-form-between-protesters-and-police/
There are nights of police lines and protester standoffs, explosions and pepper spray again in the core of Capitol Hill. The first night after Seattle Police and the city sweeping back in to retake the East Precinct and clear the Capitol Hill protest zone from Pike/Pine and Cal Anderson Park brought a new version of the ongoing tensions over demonstrations in the city.
The scale for now is much smaller. A crowd of dozens of protesters that began to form at Broadway and Pine’s rainbow crosswalk from the first moments after Wednesday’s early morning raid clashed with police as the overnight brought another dispersal order and then pepper spray and arrests. SPD reports another 25 people were arrested “for failure to disperse, assault, and obstructing.” The city’s ban on crowd control weapons isn’t set to take effect until later this month.
Smaller crowds also formed during the night at different points along the large perimeter police are maintaining around the precinct and park.
Other aspects of the night were familiar. The smaller crowd of dozens of protesters split at one point for the group to continue its nightly march to the West Precinct and I-5 between 520 and I-90 was also closed at one point overnight due to concerns over the demonstrators entering the freeway. UPDATE: Protesters are also said to be planning to continue nightly — and controversial — demonstrations outside Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Northeast Seattle home.
The night also brought explosions though not from the police flash bangs utilized in the large protests outside the East Precinct at 11th and Pine last month. Large fireworks were reported by nearby residents through the night, some lighting the sky above Cal Anderson while others boomed and echoed loudly off the area’s apartment buildings.
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Seattle Police Department and protesters clash overnight at CHOP zone; more arrested
By Callie Craighead, SeattlePI
Updated 8:07 am PDT, Thursday, July 2, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/seattle-police-dept-protesters-clash-chop-zone-15382096.php
Clashes between protesters and Seattle police continued overnight after Wednesday's early morning sweep of the CHOP protest zone following an executive order signed by Mayor Jenny Durkan.
Police and protesters faced off at a barricade on Broadway and East Pine Street that was set up as part of the sweep and reclaiming of the East Precinct.
SPD stated that just before midnight, the standoff became violent and police deployed pepper spray and blast balls after the crowd allegedly threw bottles at the police line. According to the police statement, 25 arrests were made for obstruction, assault and failure to disperse.
Flashbangs were also reportedly deployed to disperse protesters in Capitol Hill. SPD is still authorized to use these crowd control munitions in the coming weeks despite a temporary restraining order filed in June after earlier clashes following the death of George Floyd.
An exception in the order allows police to use these munitions if "reasonable, proportional, and targeted action to protect against a specific imminent threat of physical harm … or to respond to specific acts of violence or destruction of property."
Groups of protesters also made their way to City Hall and to the Windermere neighborhood near Durkan's house to demand the city defund SPD and release all of the protesters detained.
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Oregon State Police don’t wear coronavirus masks while patronizing coffee shop, despite governor’s order
A screenshot of surveillance video shows a group of Oregon State Police did not wear masks as they visited a Corvallis coffee shop on Wednesday, the first day of a statewide mask order issued by Gov. Kate Brown.
Updated 3:06 PM; Today 6:00 AM
By Brad Schmidt | The Oregonian/OregonLive
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/oregon-state-police-dont-wear-coronavirus-masks-as-they-patronize-corvallis-coffee-shop-despite-governors-order.html
A group of Oregon State Police troopers appeared to defy Gov. Kate Brown’s statewide mask order while in uniform Wednesday, entering a Corvallis coffee shop without wearing required face coverings, video obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows.
The store’s assistant manager, Travis Boss, said he told the first trooper who arrived that the trooper needed to wear a mask.
“Governor Brown has no authority to take our civil liberties. We aren’t going to wear masks,” the trooper allegedly said, according to a written statement from Boss provided to the newsroom.
The trooper proceeded to place his order, Boss said in an interview, offering a foul-mouthed retort to the governor’s mandate that masks be worn within indoor public spaces.
“He said, ‘F--- Kate Brown,’” Boss recalled.
The trooper’s alleged comments came on the same day that Brown’s statewide mask order went into effect, and just hours before Brown implored Oregonians to wear facial coverings as a “simple, common sense way to protect yourself and others” during the coronavirus pandemic.
Three other law enforcement officers entered the business moments later and also refused a request to wear masks, Boss said. Boss said he felt compelled to fulfill their drink orders because they were in uniform, even though he said he had sent other patrons away earlier for not wearing masks.
The incident represents an extraordinary example of the difficult position that some businesses say Brown’s order has put them in as they work to enforce the potentially divisive rule. Workers in shops across Oregon have been left to impose the mask mandate with the knowledge that some customers may disobey or, as videos across the country have shown, create made-for-internet spectacles.
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Court order, City Council law didn’t stop Seattle police from using pepper spray, projectiles
2 July 2020
By Daniel Beekman
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/court-order-city-council-law-didnt-stop-seattle-police-from-using-pepper-spray-projectiles/
On June 12, a federal judge ordered Seattle police to stop using crowd control weapons against peaceful protesters. On June 15, the Seattle City Council passed legislation banning crowd control weapons altogether.
But as officers cleared people from the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct Wednesday morning and then faced off with protesters at a nearby intersection overnight, they deployed a 40-millimeter sponge round, pepper spray and blast balls, the Police Department said.
There are details in the judge’s order and the council’s legislation that complicate the situation. The court order allows police to still use crowd weapons in certain instances, including to protect themselves, and the council’s legislation has yet to actually take effect.
Lawyers for the protesters who won the court order are particularly concerned about the deployment of blast balls and are gathering evidence about the city’s recent uses of force to determine whether police violated the order, one of the attorneys said Thursday.
The Police Department and Mayor Jenny Durkan didn’t directly address Thursday how the weapon deployments Wednesday and overnight related to the court order, though a spokesperson for Durkan said the mayor supports the order.
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eli
twitter.com/sre_li
2 July 2020
https://twitter.com/sre_li/status/1278856204018565120
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The grey cap makes the guy the police attacked pretty easy to find and follow if you step through this. As far as I can tell, I agree: he did nothing.]
Cops attack peaceful protestors at Broadway and Pine. 5:30pm July 2nd. Dive tackled the kid next to me, put a knee on his neck. Can’t stress enough he did nothing.
Please share.
#SeattleProtests #SeattleProtestComm #Seattle
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
